Atlantics

Atlantique

The haunting and supernatural story of two young refugees looking for a better life in Europe.

  • Director

    Mati Diop

  • With

    Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou

  • Senegal-France-Belgium 2019. 106min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

Early in Mati Diop’s beguiling and visually lyrical Atlantics, two young lovers, Ada and Souleiman are separated, as he leaves Dakar in hope of a better life across the sea in Europe. But the love story is only the prelude to a deeper, stranger story that merges contemporary issues of the refugee crisis and global inequality with haunting themes of magic, spiritual possession and the supernatural.